Ryan Hile and Dapeng Li receive AAG awards

U-Geography graduate students Ryan Hile and Dapeng Li recently received the 2015 Jeanne X. Kasperson award from the Hazards, Risk & Disasters Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). In April, they’ll join other students in a special session at the annual AAG meeting in Chicago where Ryan will present his paper entitled, “Thinking inside the black box: enhancing the social vulnerability index with artificial neural networks,” and Dapeng will present his paper entitled, “Setting wildfire evacuation triggers by coupling traffic simulation, trigger modeling, and reverse geocoding.” Congratulations Ryan and Dapeng!